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    It is not the case that Many Tibetans came to accept meat eating as a necessary part of their lifestyle

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    • 1.Buddhist monastic communities in Tibet maintained vegetarian practices, demonstrating that abstention was institutionally achievable even in harsh climates.
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    • 2.The claim conflates ecological constraint with moral necessity, obscuring that dietary choice remained contingent on social role and institutional context.
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    • 1.Peter Harvey and Ian Harris both document that Mahāyāna sutras like the Laṅkāvatāra explicitly prohibit meat eating on grounds of compassion, creating doctrinal tension with Tibetan practice.
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    • 2.Framing meat eating as 'necessary' naturalizes a culturally specific accommodation that Tibetan masters like Patrul Rinpoche themselves criticized as a rationalization.
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    • 1.Strict vegetarianism was impractical given Tibet's climate and food production constraints
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    • 2.Calorie-dense animal products were required for survival in cold Tibetan conditions
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